Posted on 03/25/2022 7:11:16 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The fertilizer crisis just got a whole lot worse after 3,000 Canadian Pacific Rail Workers walked off the job, leaving fertilizer shipments stranded.
Thousands of CP Rail conductors, engineers, train, and yard workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference decided to strike after the union and the rail company failed to strike a deal. This could result in a shortage of fertilizer and other needed farm supplies ahead of the spring growing season.
“CP Rail is the leading carrier of potash, a potassium-rich salt mined from underground deposits formed from evaporated sea beds millions of years ago, used to support crop development,” reported Zero Hedge.
“In prior investor documents, the rail company said it hauls 70% of the potash produced in North America, all from mines in Canada. The railroad also carries fertilizers, including phosphate, urea, ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, and anhydrous ammonia.”
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Reopen the closed Potash mines a Carlsbad NM!
I saw full oil tanker cars going South on the KCS rail line earlier this week. KCS is now owned by Canadian Pacific.
I saw empty oil tanker cars heading North to pick up more Canadian oil.
Some of Biden’s cronies are making a killing with the Keystone pipeline shut down.
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I’m glad I can buy produce from the local Amish. They use natural fertilizer that comes from horses and cows.
Everything is falling apart...
The Center cannot hold....
“Fear porn to fit an end times narrative.”
These types of blogs and those who gorge on them are like teen age girls around a summer camp fire, each taking their turn to see who can tell the scariest story.
Agreed. I am going shopping again today just to keep stocking and we have already started our cool weather garden. Will start the warm weather plants soon.
I was just going to bring up the potash mines around Carlsbad, NM. Way back in the day, one of my grandmother’s brothers owned a potash mine there.
“KCS is now owned by Canadian Pacific.:
Yes, the shareholders approved the merger in December and now it is in the hands of the Surface Transportation Board. There are several objections being considered that may affect the final deal.
We lived there in 1960-1962. The potash mines and oil fields were the major industry back then.
If Biden hadn’t ended the pipe line work that 2 months from being completed we wouldn’t have this problem and many others.
The stooge can’t do anything right
The local NM (Albuquerque and Santa Fe) enviro extremists have shut down NM fracking as well.
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